How right you are. Take a look at their group and see who has run a pb in the last 12 months. That is who is capable of landing a position with another training group. Most Groups are not interested in bringing in anyone elses no longer developing attitudes.

Sad if true, but perhaps not totally unexpected as adidas seems to be reducing their support for professional running except for sprints. Reebok Enclave, Fila Discovery team, etc. went through the same thing.

Losing any training group for distance running is unfortunate for US running because so much of it is a numbers game - the more post-collegiates able to train at a high level, the better the odds of identifying talent that can compete at a world level. Just trying to develop the few top college runners every year - many of whom may be close to their potential already - will never get the US to the same level as the East Africans.